. . . since Mac and Linux can only read NTFS drives—not write to them.

Tough one. I prefer AMD on desktops, great value (cost for performance you get), but I tend to pick Intel for notebooks. I always put Linux on the notebook immediately, and the Intel notebooks usually have more consistent hardware (that's supported well) for things like audio and wireless.

Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH. DD-WRT preinstalled + USB port = massive potential.

It supports tilt starting with 0.9 but, being a newer feature, few of the supplied brushes make use of it. Anyone wanting to use tilt will have to tweak the brushes.

I loaded this article specifically to suggest MyPaint, too. It's good for painting, sketching, inking, and also odd things that you wouldn't normally use an art program to do. The infinite canvas combined with selectable tiled backgrounds (such as ruled paper or graph paper) can be great for notes, diagrams, maps,…

Same as above - can't approve without a reply for some reason.

Replying to approve comment since it should help the original commenter out. Still can't seem to approve any other way.

You can separate the user folders to a different partition, I remember reading something about it on here. The instructions had some voodoo to them to make Windows happy but it was possible.

Linux (Debian): I'd love to see better software and hardware support from companies. Especially software; hardware isn't perfect but it's usually decent. Things like Photoshop, games, etc.

Oh god, I hated fvwm. Loved afterstep and (later) windowmaker though.

I was just kidding. ;)

pfft, real men use a tty and screen. Preferably with vi. ;)

Hell yeah, I first used Window Maker around '99 and it was amazing compared to the alternatives at the time. Tried it because KDE1 was terrible and GNOME1 was pretty (for the time) but ridiculously bloated. Stuck with it for years because it was just nice to use and had little reason to change. It wasn't until KDE…

KDE in general, plus Conky for a few info boxes on the desktop. KDE itself gives you a massively tweakable desktop so I don't really have to deal with the config hacking and extra apps that seem to be popular with other environments. I do replace the default K menu launcher with Lancelot, though.

Honestly, you're close enough to the mark, especially for an introduction to the concepts. It's hard to get into this sort of thing without really complicating an already messy subject. My comment was just one of those "the more you know!" kind of things. :)

Try Windowmaker if you want something fairly basic and lightweight and don't mind a NeXTSTEP-esque design. It's what I used between GNOME 1 and KDE 3 during the period where I didn't like either environment.

Just to be clear, Kwin isn't the only window manager you can use with KDE. You can switch to anything else easily through the System Settings panel, just like most of the other settings. For example, I used Compiz and KDE together for several years before recently switching back to Kwin and had no problems. You…

PSDTUTS+ cover al ot